June 30, 2008 I'm on MC today. Slept for almost the whole afternoon.
Sometimes people must learn to be selfish at the expense of others.
What has the world become?
-nIx- @ [[9:35 PM]]
June 29, 2008 Random ; Humans are very subjective. When it's happening to someone else, you'd be thinking why the person did/did not do this or that. You'd rub in salt by saying the "if Iwere him/her, I'd blablabla"
But when you're struck with the same situation of the person, you'd be thinking twice. Are you're really going to keep what you said and follow accordingly to what you've previously stressed as a no-excuse, fixed set of actions you vowed to take? What happens when society changes, situations change and you change? Would you still be the naive little kid you were many years ago?
Would you give into pressure from fear of others' gossips, mockery or avoidance? Would you?
I guess it's high time everyone put themselves in others' shoe so as to obtain a better understanding of that other persons' situation. What would I have done?
I guess I've written all this with the foresight that something bad may happen.
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On a brighter & healtier note, I'm back from a night's trip to Gunung Ledang, a killer for those who hasn't exercised for a long long time. What a feat.
We were way behind schedule (supposedly to arrive at 1pm but arrived at 4pm) mainly giving thanks to clearing both checkpoints and waiting for the buses (2.5hrs in total). When we arrived at the bus station at 10am, the earliest ticket was at 11.30om. And so we had lunch/junk and walked around for a while. Arrived at the bus area at 11.30am only to find our bus had moved off without us. Speaking of timing, don't trust the ticket timing, always arrive 15-20minutes earlier. Thankfully the driver was curious enough to ask why the bus was rather empty and at the same time Lena went to ask the office. So they stopped the bus (it left early to make a loop around the bus station as it was one-way) and gave the 6 of us 5minutes to rush there. The 2.5hours trip was hell, the aircon was so inefficient that everyone on board, if not fast asleep, was fanning themselves and perspiring. The 2.5hr trip was longer than stated and when we finally arrived, we took a cab to the place, only to end up at the wrong Base camp. Paid entrance fee for nothing and had to top up the driver fee from RM60 to RM85 per cab in the end. =/ At least the driver was nice enough to tell us to get our bus tickets for the next day first because it's hard to get a ticket. Indeed, the only tickets left was at 11.30am. I wished we had the latest bus so we could chill at the waterfall. ):
The treck starts ; I almost wanted to give up halfway even before we reached the 1st rest stop. My face was the reddest among all of them I think.
It really gives one a great sense of satisfaction. Though we didn't finish the whole hike I'm happy to have made it that far (One rope climb up the rocks to rest stop 7, the last stop is 8). I'd have love to reach the summit but we saw countless strikes of lightning and worried we would be caught in the rain. If it did happen, our descent would also be dangerous as it'd be even more slippery than it already is. To add on, it was another 3hours to the summit and we'd be back at around 5 or 6am instead.
Was fun too how we asked people heading back to base on our ascend for food or drinks because we realised we had not enough on us and the canteen wouldn't be open till 7am. So we got dried plum tea from the other group's guide, dried plum & jelly and chocolates from another couple.
The spring water was so fresh we could just fill our bottles and drink them. The thought of doing so scared me at first but it was really refreshing. Clean cold (water cooler temperature) drinking water (the downside comes later)!
And so at about 1.30am we arrived back to our dorms, sticky and tired. Good news that the tap water was the spring water and so proved drink-worthy. (Here comes the downside, -drumrolls-) We had to shower with the same water which was FREEZING. The aftereffect was good as 2 of the girls said their hair felt noticably smoother. Mine wasn't smooth after all that chemical damage but it definitely felt better than before.
The next time we go there, we'd rather arrive, chill and then climb in the next morning for the whole day, then return the next day. Besids, dormitory is only RM10 per head per night. We'd book the chalet the next time though(RM 100). 1 double bed, 2 single beds, 1 3seater sofa and 1 2seater sofa. The best part would definitely be water heaters in the chalet. For approximately RM7 each we'd be living in the comfort of warm water(although we'd only have 1 toilet instead of more than 6 at the dormitory.
And oh, I forgot to bring my little travel companion, aka baby bear this time round. So sad. ):
Overall, that 9 gruelling hours of hike was an experience... but somehow I seemed to have gained weight. =/
-nIx- @ [[9:14 PM]]
June 24, 2008 I'm in a bitching mood today. I come home after a long day at work and a total of about 3hours of travelling and yet I still have to face the tape player going on about housework not done and me messing up. Hello? For the past few days I have no energy whatsoever that all I do is coop myself up in the room, eat packeted food, use my computer and fall asleep. Am I really messing up THAT much? And what about that other lady in the house who sleeps later than me, wakes up later than me, goes out ever-so-often and stays at home baking cookies, muffins and cakes? Doesn't she have all the time in the world to mess up, and clean up too?
To top it all up, I've been doing the housework when she wasn't around. I've been ironing my own clothes, packing my own room. Now I have to SHARE my clothes unwillingly with someone else who loves to take my ironed clothes. It's easy, wear and throw into the washing machine. Then the clothes lie in the basket awaiting ironing for the next 2months or so just because I'm too busy to iron them. And on days I want to go out, I have no clothes to wear.
And Tuas is so fucking ulu with limited choice of food and the only thing that amuses me is those long sticks with fire (aka olympic torches), half set up scaffoldings (aka stone hedge) and huges cirles of whatever's inside (aka furballs).
-nIx- @ [[10:06 PM]]
June 22, 2008 A picture speaks a thousand words.
My Favourite pair of work earrings (comes with a matching pendant!)
Does my work scare you off?
Its called wan dou sek in Cantonese. Located at Sims Drive. Just makes me reminiscence my days in Hong Kong. Thank you very much.
My first cuppa truly rich hot cuppa chocolate milk and fruit platter fondue. Sinful.
Mother's Day at Just Acia (spelling?)
Claypot Chicken plus veggie and rice. $4.50 Amoy Street (if my memory doesn't fail me)
By far the best teochew porridge I've ever eaten. :D Lady boss is friendly. Ate there twice. Next to some stadium starting with the letter S.... Next to some pizza delivery shop. Tell me the address if you know where it is because I wanna go back.
Hougang zhi char with very yummy prawn salad
The day we had Mac (with at least one set's worth free lol).
Asian Kitchen, known for the duck? IMO Slightly better than average. Raffles City Basement
Curry fish at Ocean (Amoy Street). Cheap and recommended!
I have been, and will be stuck at this ulu place named Tuas till Friday. ):
Fish Spa with lin. Worth the experience and I'm going to go back sometime soon (: $12 for half hour, cheaper than other places (maybe there's other cheaper places IDK, but its cheap enough).
I suddenly feel sick of my life.
-nIx- @ [[10:50 PM]]
I somehow feel that working puts one in a greater debt than never working at all.
2tops the day before, 3tops yesterday and 2 more tops and 1 shorts today (I hope I can fit in) spells broke and I look like a poodle with my newly permed hair. Poodle because the curls went a little too high. But whatever.
I should stop shopping. My closet is screaming out to me to stop buying clothes. And so is the pile of clothes in the basket waiting to be ironed. To top it up, all my clothes from my sister's cupboard wound up on my bed today. That's double the size of my current closet space now.
-nIx- @ [[7:48 PM]]
June 21, 2008 I get to claim $44.20 from the office for yesterday's transport expenses. =p
Which I ought to do so quickly because..... I am so broke.
Day 1 : $17+x2 cab rides to and fro. Day 2 : $2 MRT ride, $10 cab ride there and $32.20 cab ride back.
Yes, luxurious, but FAR and very tedious work. ):
-nIx- @ [[10:08 AM]]
angez : hahaha.
It's a lazy Saturday morning and I'm hungry but nobody's answering my phone and I want to go shopping (with no cash on me, what to do?).
I need to stop snacking at work because I'm beginning to look more and more like a round furball especially when someone seems skinnier to me IMO. ):
Lose weight time nixnix!
-nIx- @ [[10:02 AM]]
June 20, 2008 I don't know why but I've been feeling like clubbing the past 3days at least. Grr.
-nIx- @ [[10:45 PM]]
June 19, 2008 Watched Sex and the City with sunshine last night. Was a really interesting show I'd say considering that I don't watch the TV series at all and always wondered what the hype was about.
Arrived at town early and started wakling around till sunshine suggested I go buy the tickets first. A good suggestion because the tickets were already sold out at cine. Thankfully nix has the habit of bringing back her half read / unread newspapers and there it was! The next available theatre at Lido. And so sunshine arrived before me (because I ran across the road towards the wrong direction because the greenie was flashing, then had to wait for the traffic light to turn green again) and there he was playing on his PSP. It's always a different colour everytime I see it Gold, black, red. Mad. =p
Since we had slightly lesser than 2hours to kill, we had dinner and window shopped, at the kiddy section and saw so many pretty kiddy shoes to die for. In the future, my child will never have a shortage of clothes or shoes, as long as my cash doesn't run dry.
And then we still had more time to kill so we went snack shopping (I finished almost all my snacks today at work) with plenty of meiji stuff and dried mango (which is yum!).
Finally, movie time! There was this part that made me go "Oh my gosh! Lic did that too!" (And it's only for lic and me to know and for you to figure out. HAHAHA. =x To get you guys on the right track, it has nothing to do with sex. =p)
So the movie and company was great that I didn't know it was almost midnight by the time the movie ended. Managed to get on the last train home with sunshine. (:
After that wasn't so pleasant... I followed up on my work and only managed to complete it at 2.30am. Afterwhich I fell asleep with much ease.
Work today is relatively slow-paced, but the venue sucks more than anything in the world. It's at Tuas. A 10-15minute cab ride to Jurong MRT. So I recon we'd be spending at least $30 on cab rides everyday for tomorrow and next week. That is my only luxury - cab rides. However, the venue sucks nevertheless. But then my spirit was soon lifted when I saw _________ after I alighted from the cab. My beloved Tea Leaf Egg in the Pasar Malam! Whoooooo~ Now I have something to look forward to tomorrow. Heh.
Bottom line, the movie's worth the watch, however, I recommend that ange don't watch it. I don't think she would want to either. HAHA.
Narnia, anyone?
-nIx- @ [[7:57 PM]]
June 18, 2008 Hanging out tmr again! :D
-nIx- @ [[12:34 AM]]
June 17, 2008 My 3rd pair of heels/flats in a week! Hahahahaa.
-nIx- @ [[9:13 PM]]
June 16, 2008 ; 3 different days 3 different guys
Hah! I think being a female has its benefits.
1's down to earth, so very sociable, not as busy as before so better go out with me more often or risk beign kidnapped by yours truly! Wonder when will you ever be my tour guide. Hah.
2's a little noisier. Car ride past midnight and a free treat to crispy prata. Mmm, yum minus all the fats I'd be getting. Spotted by dad on the way home but no questions asked. Phew.
3's the craziest and very fun to just hang out and chill with. Dinner at Brewerks. Good food, good service, good scenery, good everything! Total damage : $118. And so for almost 4 hours, the two of us just chattered away from one topic to another. Young, sensible, independent and not to forget crazy. Always up to some challenge.
I have to go now, life has been pretty busy.
-nIx- @ [[7:09 PM]]
June 14, 2008 In this lifetime, I think the females will never be able to comprehend the males and vice versa.
But one thing I've learnt, guys are constantly on the move. If they don't get what they want, then there'd be a change of target and there's no looking back for them. They only play the nice guy so they can have someone to fall back on, bored or likewise ; they don't mind remaining as friends.
They make really good human blankets to warm you up when you're freezing, but on the extreme, they can be really cold at times. So cold even a poor little girl baking in the sun can still feel that pang, even an open ended question receives no reply at all and yet you know, they're somewhere out there alive and having the time of their life.
You feel just like a tiny ant, at the mercy of them.
But no, you mustn't let yourself fall into such a sticky situation. You must be strong. Even when playing with fire, one must ensure that certain mindsets are in place and should not be wavered upon, no leeways, no loopholes, no giving in.
We're still young with at least another three quarters of our live to live through and plenty of other important issues to deal with. Why bother ourselves with such miniscule setbacks? We still have all the time in the world to deal with it, almost.
After all, there's no one person who doesn't make use of others in one way or another, consciously or otherwise.
Once bitten, twice shy. Not bitten, nothing to worry about. :D
-nIx- @ [[6:19 PM]]
June 13, 2008 Friday the 13th!
My hands and legs are aching from all that standing for the past 2 days at work. Photocopying and binding. I officially crown myself as binding queen.
Thankfully it's all over.
-nIx- @ [[11:47 PM]]
June 11, 2008 I wake up feeling like any other day but I can't help but think about how yesterday seemed so much like a dream.
Maybe I was dreaming after all. Lol.
-nIx- @ [[11:13 PM]]
June 10, 2008 While so much has happened within the past month or so, things are starting to look up.
Pleasant, pleasant surprise this afternoon and a happy nixnix!
Watched Kung Fu Panda, its just really hilarious.
Saw Lutlut, angez and noch at AMK train station. They watched the same movie too (and I can imagine ange being the loudest, haha).
For the record, you seem to be more matured than since I last met you. (:
-nIx- @ [[11:00 PM]]
June 07, 2008 Avoidance isn't the best way out so face it. Your actions and silence are my assurance.
I may be blur at times but I'm definitely not dumb.
-nIx- @ [[10:13 PM]]
Failed expectations always lead to a disappointment or fall.
Nevertheless my Friday night till Saturday evening was well spent singing, playing games, MSN-ing and watching movies(with noisy angez of course). Lut's parents and not to forget lut are so hospitable.
I still owe lutlut his birthday shirt and thanks ange for the keychain, letter and paper punch!
Off to nap (again, yes I know).
-nIx- @ [[6:20 PM]]
I can't believeso many people are not free for me today(yesterday actually). They're all busy with their own lives. Thankfully there's angez, noch and lutlut! Dinner at the bubble tea shop which brings back memories of primary school and I'm now at lutlut's house to stay for the night.
And ahh, I can't play typer shark on this computer because there's no Java thingy installed here. ):
-nIx- @ [[2:19 AM]]
June 05, 2008 Surprise surprise! 15minute call from Australia and a possible visit in December.
And I'm still alive after 2days, I never thought I'd make it through one, even.
Or maybe there just happens to be something to fall back on.
Whatever it is, cherish cherish cherish!
-nIx- @ [[9:04 PM]]
June 03, 2008 The past few days has been tiring, with much admin work to be done - filing, box filling and carrying them all around the office.
The up side of this is that I get to go off exactly at 5.30pm. Hurray!
Mentally drained out too. ):
Good luck y'all with the exams!
-nIx- @ [[9:54 PM]]
June 01, 2008 2344th post and it's already the 1st of June, which means half the year has passed. How time flies.
I slept my day away. Feeling the pinch for such a precious weekend to be wasted but I just felt so sick and tired of everything that I wanted to sleep and not wake up.
Alas, it takes two hands to clap. Unfortunately, these hands do not follow the same pace and rhythm.
It all boils down to a mismatch and it'll end some day.